Welcome to my website, Within this site are a few galleries of my work. I will be adding to the galleries from time to time. It will include commentary with the photos including GPS (geotagging). Check out my blog for photography tips and what I have been up to.

Ceasars Palace

A view of Caesars Place from in front of Bellagio

A Fine View of the French Riviera - Nice, France

One of Nice, France's scenic sites overlooking the Mediterranean Sea

Pavilion Richelieu, The Louvre, Paris, France

The Pavillion Richelieu in the Louvre. The Richelieu Wing is on the northern side of the Louvre, next to Rue de Rivoli. The Richelieu was named after Armand Richelieu, 17th Century French statesman, cardinal & monarchist.

Toilet in Amsterdam, Netherlands

When you got to go.

Bally's Casino - Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada

Bally's Las Vegas, formerly MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, is a hotel & casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, NV, owned & operated by Caesars Entertainment. The hotel features 2,814 extra-sized guestrooms that are 450 sq ft or larger & over 175,000 sq ft of banquet & meeting space. The casino occupies 67,000 sq ft. About 75% of the rooms are in the North Tower & were renovated in 2004. The remaining rooms are in the South Tower with views of Paris Casino, with a limited number renovated.
A signature feature of the hotel is the neon lighting wrapped around the covered moving sidewalk that brings guests from Las Vegas Blvd to the entrance of the casino while old hits from the Rat Pack are pumped out. The resort has a large shopping area a floor below its gaming level, including several restaurants, and there is a Las Vegas Monorail station at the rear of the property. Bally's is home for the long-running production show Jubilee! which opened in 1981.
On Nov 21, 1980, the hotel, then operating as the MGM Grand, was the site of one of the worst high-rise fires in US history, in which 84 people died.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

A view of Caesars Palace from in front of Bellagio

Monument to the Discoveries - Lisbon, Portugal

Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Discoveries) is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus River estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon. Located along the river where ships departed to explore & trade with India & the Orient. The monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery (or Age of Exploration) during the 15th & 16th centuries.

Notre Dame Basillica, Montreal, Canada

The parish church of Notre-Dame was built between 1672 & 1682. A cross is planted to designate the future emplacement of the church on Jun 29, 1672. The next day the first 5 stones are laid. By 1824 the congregation had completely outgrown the church. James O'Donnell, an Irish-American Protestant from New York, was commissioned to design the Notre-Dame Basilica. The church was demolished in 1830 & the bell tower in 1843. Foundations from the original Notre-Dame Church lie under Place d'Armes & were unearthed during the square's 2009-2011 renovations.

The Petit Palace, Paris, France

Built for the World Fair in 1900, the Petit Palace currently has many French paintings & sculptures as well as housing many Greek, Roman, & Egyptian objects.

Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

The Garden of the Tuileries

Palace de la Concorde, Paris, France

During the French Revolution this became the site of the guillotine. The square became the Palace de la Concorde in 1795.

Market Place, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Just a Fine Day in Nijmegen. A view of the Market Square with St Stephen (St Steven) Church in the background

An Angel in Nijmegen, Netherlands

The English translation on the Statue 'Unity is Strength'

Waal Bridge in Nijmegen, Netherlands

AKA, The Waalbrug, the arched bridge over the Waal River in Nijmegen. At the start of World War II the Dutch combat engineering units blew up the bridge to stop the German army's advance. During the occupation the Germans restored the bridge & from 1943 it was in use for traffic again. In 1944 the Germans planned to blow up the bridge again, but Jan van Hoof, a Rover Scout & member of the Dutch Resistance, managed to prevent this. On 20 Sep 1944, allied forces conquered the bridge. A plaque was added to the bridge as a reminder of van Hoof's actions.

Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Rijksmuseum (English: State Museum) is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts & history in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, & the Concertgebouw.

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica (French: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur), is a Roman Catholic church & minor basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Paris, France. A popular landmark, the basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political & cultural, both a national penance for the supposed excesses of the Second Empire & socialist Paris Commune of 1871 crowning its most rebellious neighborhood, & an embodiment of conservative moral order, publicly dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was an increasingly popular vision of a loving and sympathetic Christ.
The Sacré-Cœur Basilica was designed by Paul Abadie. Construction began in 1875 & finished in 1914. It was consecrated after the end of World War I in 1919.